{"id":3463,"date":"2025-12-27T16:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2025-12-27T16:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:25:10","slug":"lesson-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/lesson-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Diffident <\/strong>\u2013 lacking confidence; shy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Example Sentence:<\/em> He sounded diffident when presenting his idea, even though it was brilliant.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hob<\/strong> \u2013 the flat top surface of a stove used for cooking<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Example Sentence<\/em>: She placed the pan on the hob and waited for the oil to heat.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maim <\/strong>\u2013 to injure severely, causing lasting damage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Example Sentence<\/em>: The sharp tools could maim someone if not handled properly.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phial <\/strong>\u2013 a small glass bottle used for storing liquids, often medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Example Sentence:<\/em> The researcher carefully labelled each phial before placing it on the shelf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Photogenic <\/strong>\u2013 looking attractive in photographs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Example Sentence<\/em>: The puppy was so photogenic that every picture looked perfect.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Twinge <\/strong>\u2013 a sudden, slight pain or emotional pang<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Example Sentence:<\/em> He felt a twinge in his ankle after the long run.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tacit <\/strong>\u2013 understood or implied without being stated directly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Example Sentence:<\/em> Their tacit agreement allowed them to work together smoothly.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Squeamish <\/strong>\u2013 easily disgusted or made faint by unpleasant things<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Example Sentence:<\/em> She grew squeamish at the thought of watching a surgery video.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sulk <\/strong>\u2013 to be silent, gloomy, or bad-tempered out of disappointment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Example Sentence:<\/em> He tended to sulk whenever plans didn\u2019t go his way.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Xenon <\/strong>\u2013 a heavy, colourless gas used in lights and scientific devices<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Example Sentence<\/em>: The lamp glowed brightly thanks to the xenon bulb inside. Diffident \u2013 lacking confidence; shy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diffident \u2013 lacking confidence; shy Example Sentence: He sounded diffident when presenting his idea, even though it was brilliant. Hob \u2013 the flat top surface of a stove used for cooking Example Sentence: She placed the pan on the hob and waited for the oil to heat. Maim \u2013 to injure severely, causing lasting damage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improve-your-vocabulary","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}